#TOKMUSIC TO WHAT EXTENT DID HISTORY AFFECT THE PROGRESSION OF MUSIC AND HOE DO HAPPENINGS TODAY INFLUENCE MODERN MUSIC?
MIDDLE AGES -Cathedral center of music life -Boys required to take music classes -Women not allowed to sing in church -However they made music in convents -Most music vocal -Church frowned upon instruments because of their earlier role in pagan rites -However the organ and bells became more common in churches and cathedrals after about 1000
GREGORIAN CHANTS -Latin text -No accompaniment -Calm other worldly quality -Flexible rhythm -No time was kept -Represents voice of the church -Church modes -
SECULAR MUSIC -Happened outside the church -Dance feel -Used many instruments
FOURTEENTH CENTURY MUSIC -Know as new art in Italy and France -Hundred years war -Black plague -Weakening of the feudal system and catholic church -Started to doubt the church -Secular became more popular -Polyphonic music, drinking songs -Music notation evolved -New rhythms, syncopation -
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